I've recently inherited a few HP 2.5" 300G SAS 10k drives (EG0300FBDBR). I'm going to attempt to use them in a ZFS configuration, 18 drives total across 3 Dell H310s (flashed to LSI 2008 HBAs). From what I can tell these drives have 3 different versions of HP firmware on them. The majority are HPDA with some HPD7 and a few HPD6s in mix as well... I've tried a number of firmware upgrade methods described on HPs site with no luck (online and offline methods in both Linux and Windows). I've also tried some Linux based SCSI tools for flashing the firmware (scsirastools) , but that too failed.
On to my questions:
1. I'd like to make all of the drives at the latest FW level (appears to be HPDA). Does anyone have any helpful info to share on how to accomplish this?
2. Do you guys foresee any problems running 3 different firmware revisions in a ZFS vdev if option 1 is not possible?
On to my questions:
1. I'd like to make all of the drives at the latest FW level (appears to be HPDA). Does anyone have any helpful info to share on how to accomplish this?
2. Do you guys foresee any problems running 3 different firmware revisions in a ZFS vdev if option 1 is not possible?